The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-05-21
MONTANA NEWS.

MONTANA NEWS.
Philipsburg is to have $4,000 hotel
Bozeman is to have a new fifty y-room
hotel.
A canine catcher and executioner is tc
be appointed at Helena, with monthly
salary of $75.
From Glenwood to Hecla, a distance OF
three and one-half miles, the mail and
passengers are taken on sleigh.
The Montana Central will hasten the
development of the Sand Coulee coal
mines and the Neihart mining regions.
Nazaire Greiner was found guilty Of
robbery at Deer Lodge last week; also,
Louis Anderson, for assault with deadly
weapon.
The Woolston water works at Helena
are to be pushed right ahead, and an ex-
pert civil engineer has begun prepara-
tory survey.
The Independent says: "None of the
! lot looters' have jumped the Jail yet, but
there are other looters in there who would
like to jump it,
An unique pavement is being laid by
James Wilbur at Great Falls, consisting
of empty beer bottles set upside down,
and closely together.
Attorney Duffy, counsel tor Hart, who
is sentenced to be hung at Boulder City
on the gath of June, has appealed the case
to the supreme court.
Judge Thomas G. Bach opened the
spring term of the district court at Bill
lings on the 10Th inst, which, it is ex-
pected, will last month or more.
The hackmen of Helena are about to
be placed under the "thumb of the law
as it has been reported recently that they
have been charging exorbitnt fees for
theil services.
Theo. Fisher, we'll l-to-do harness maker
of Sun River, has mysteriously disappear
ed. and trouble is feared He left that
place on the 10Th of April, and has not
been heard from since.
The mining deals that are now being
made are inspiring a new interest into the
lives of the prospectors, and they ale all
on the qui vive for an opening throughout
the districts of Montana.
Moore, the defaulting Timberline agent,
was arraigned before Judge Carson at
Bozeman, Tuesday, and bound over in the
sum of $500, in default of which he
now languishes in Jail there.
The old city council of Butte, before
retiring, voted 800 to Hamilton & Nap
ton, attorneys for the city IN the Smoke
house cases, to be used in carrying them
to the United States supreme court.
The seven-year old daughter of Mr.
Brooks of Bozeman, in attempting to cross
Middle creek ON Sunday last, missed her
footing and was drowned. The body was
recovered about half mile below town.
The water power at Great Falls has not
as yet been examined by expert hydraulic
engineers, but the force of the fall from
the head of the rapids to the foot of Rain
bow falls has been estimated at one mil
lion horse power.
Butte has trio of bad boys who, after
reading yellow-covered literature, decided
to join the cowboy fraternity. They stole
a horse and saddle and were on the road
when captured by the sheriff. They are
now in Jail at Butte.
At meeting of the Montana wool
growers at Miles City, oD the 18th, it was
shown that although the ''winds had not
been tempered for the early lambs" they
seemed to have survived and the present
outlook is favorable.
Montana's scab law will take effect
June /. Under its provisions every per.
son having scabby sheep will have to dip
them and obtain a certificate from the ter
ritorial veterinary surgeon before he car
move them to a new range.
A freighter, on his way to a new mining
camp called Libbey with cargo of liquor
was held up by band of Indians num-
bcring about forty, who got away with all
the fiery liquid they could find, making
good their escape with the booty.
The lot jumping in Helena has abateo
and the excitement is over, but the sup
position at the present time is that many
suits will be filed to determine the tech
nicalities that have been involved and per
manently settle the points at issue.
In the case of the Territory agains
John McGurk, who was tried at Mile!
City for the crime of rape, the jury were
unable to agree, and the defendant will b'
| tr,nd ot tho NEXT term If court Hi
bondsmen declined to serve him further
and he was therefore rcmanded to the car
of the sheriff and is now in Jail.